From: Marilyn Crocker [mailto:marilyncrocker@juno.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2014 6:48 PM To: mimis41@msn.com Subject: Ed's Completed Life Dear Mimi, Joe and I just received an e-mail to the OE community from Vinod expressing his thanksgiving for Ed's amazingly invested life, and his sense of loss at the news of Ed's death last Friday. We are stunned and saddened, as we still remember Ed as the passionate, mud-covered staff member in Maliwada who late one afternoon announced at the top of his voice, "It's the right kind of MUD to launch our BRICK FACTORY!!!" I know JWM always referred to Rupert Barnes as Kenya's " wild man", but Ed would certainly have earned that moniker for India. Both of these brilliant colleagues had an unquenchable passion for local people and planet earth. In visiting the website for Village Earth for the first time this evening, after reading Vinod's reference to it, I find myself so deeply sorrowed that we (Joe and I) and the larger OE community (via our listserve) somehow missed out on learning about this amazing network of caring and development you and Ed launched from your OE diaspora spot in Colorado. As JWM might say, "What wonders God has wrought through that Shinn family!!" So many precious memories of our year as part of the HDTS team in Maliwada flood my mind this evening - the frogs in the coffee tin that Nat and our kids hid (in our bedroom); Boney Maroney, the best fed dog in India; the night you, David Scott and we shared a dung covered second floor loft as facilitators of the Pune consult; the night the rats ran across our bed and up & out across the transom because we had cookies in the priest's quarters where we were writing the document after that consult; the haircut you gave me in Maliwada that everyone claimed made me look 10 years younger (and I loved that, but was only 34 then!!). Your brilliant and committed husband was such a treasure, wherever he showed up on planet earth. Intense, passionate, committed, determined, dogged, willing to go to the wall, sensitive, responsive, and so many more qualities - this list only slightly illuminates our beloved Ed Shinn. We extend our love and wishes for comfort to you, Rachael, Mark and Nat at this time of your deep loss and celebration. Grace and peace, Marilyn and Joe Crocker